Divorcing the Negative

Children suffer when their parents engage in aggressive legal battles or when a parent tries to turn the children against their mother or father. When one parent behaves in a hurtful way, the other parent naturally seeks to retaliate. Then the first parent responds with additional abuse and the other parent feels the need to [...]

Helping a Friend Through a Divorce With Flowers

Divorce can potentially be a very messy process and is always an emotionally draining thing for anybody to have to go through. Nobody finds it in the slightest bit easy. When somebody is contemplating or actually going through a divorce, a friend is often just the thing they need. So, if you’re a friend of [...]

Finding Inner Peace

“People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive everyone requires the same nourishment: inner peace.”  (Sri Sathya Sai Baba) Some avenues to inner peace include: Noticing your breath Meditating Walks in nature Quieting the mind Forgiving others and self Being gentle on yourself and many more not listed here. What exactly is [...]

You can’t make me!

You can’t make me get upset, be sad, get angry, feel badly, be hurt, or anything else.  You can’t make me do something if I don’t choose to do it.  You can’t make me say something I’ll regret.  You can’t make me behave poorly, act out, fly off the handle, or storm off.  You can’t [...]

The Senselessness of Trying to Change Another

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself, and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”  (Jacob M. Braude) Most of you are working on personal change –so you are aware of areas you wish to grow in and are actively becoming your best self.  As such, you’ve experienced how [...]

Are You Constantly Debating Yourself?

Submitted by: Sydney Tyler Thomas I’m a natural-born debater.  I haven’t been in a formal debate since being captain of my high school debate team and my days of debates over policy and procedure in a large corporation are long gone too.  Yet I’m in a season of my life in which I find myself [...]

What I Think Of My Divorced Mom

Submitted by Delaine At 66 years old, my mom is a real firecracker. This woman has so much energy, she makes 20 year olds look like slugs.  But much more than that, mom is confident.  She’s generous beyond belief.  She’s sexy.  Has taken great care of herself.  And she spends her days either working 10 hour shifts in [...]

If there was ever a time I’d use a psychic, divorce was it!

Submitted by Delaine At any point since your marriage ended, have you been inspired to see a tarot card reader or psychic? Cause I have.  A few times, in fact.  I’ve also looked for ‘angel footprints’ and messages from Above – it’s all about needing a bit of faith, isn’t it?  In ourselves, our futures AND the universe we live [...]

Al and Tipper Gore: A New Trend Toward Midlife Divorce?

Submitted by: Big Little Wolf Al and Tipper Gore to Divorce Unless you’ve been living under a rock, by now you’ve heard the term gray divorce, likely in conjunction with the news that Al and Tipper Gore are splitting up after 40 years. Of course, the original announcement was followed by a claim that Al [...]

With Time and Distance Comes a Calm Heart

Submitted by: Maya I caught a glimpse of the ex the other day. We had to be in the same place and cordially stayed on opposite sides of the room. He always keeps his back to me when we are in these situations but I always sit facing him, daring him to look into my [...]

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